There is hereby created within and for the territory of City
of Smithville, in the County of Clay, an Emergency Management Agency
to be known as the Smithville, Missouri Emergency Management Agency
(SMEMA), which is responsible for the preparation and implementation
of emergency functions required to prevent injury and minimize and
repair damage due to disasters, to include emergency management of
resources and administration of such economic controls as may be needed
to provide for the welfare of the people, and emergency activities
(excluding functions for which military forces are primarily responsible)
in accordance with Chapter 44, RSMo., 1978, and supplements thereto,
and the Missouri Emergency Operations Plan adopted thereunder.

This agency shall consist of a Director and other members appointed
by the City Administrator to conform to the State organization and
procedures for the conduct of emergency operations as outlined in
the Missouri Emergency Operations Plan.

The SMEMA shall perform Emergency Management functions within
the territorial limits of Smithville, and may conduct these functions
outside the territorial limits as directed by the Governor during
the time of emergency pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 44, RSMo.,
1978, and supplements thereto.

Appropriate
and expend funds, make contracts, obtain and distribute equipment,
materials, and supplies for civil defense purposes; provide for the
health and safety of persons, including emergency assistance to victims
of any enemy attack; the safety of property; and direct and coordinate
the development of disaster plans and programs in accordance with
the policies and plans of the Federal and State disaster and emergency
planning;

With
the approval of the Governor and consistent with the Missouri Emergency
Operations Plan, enter into mutual-aid agreements with other public
and private agencies within and without the State for reciprocal emergency
aid;

No person shall be employed or associated in any capacity in
any organization established under this act who advocates or has advocated
a change by force or violence in the constitutional form of the government
of the United States or in this State or the overthrow of any government
in the United States by force or violence, or has been convicted of
or is under indictment or information charging any subversive act
against the United States. Each person who is appointed to serve in
an organization shall, before entering upon his duties, take an oath,
in writing, before a person authorized to administer oaths in this
State, which oath shall be substantially as follows:

"I,________________________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that
I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and
the Constitution of the State of Missouri, against all enemies, foreign
and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same;
that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation
or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge
the duties upon which I am about to enter. And I do further swear
(or affirm) that I do not advocate, nor am I a member of any political
party or organization that advocates the overthrow of the government
of the United States or of this State by force or violence; and that
during such a time as I am a member of the Smithville Emergency Management
Agency, I will not advocate nor become a member of any political party
or organization that advocates the overthrow of the government of
the United States or of this State by force or violence."